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Old Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the library, we lost ourselves<\/p>\n gazing out at traffic, yearning<\/p>\n for stories of\u00a0 adventure and flight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, every night, we fly and hum,<\/p>\n our bodies carrying<\/p>\n the pollen of our lives:<\/p>\n dust from cinema seats,<\/p>\n grains of instant soup,<\/p>\n flakes of lubricating jelly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our headlamp eyes<\/p>\n unanchor rooms, turn<\/p>\n houses into ocean liners.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve heard that children born near motorways<\/p>\n can\u2019t sleep without the lullaby<\/p>\n of rolling tyres.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Josephine Corcoran<\/strong>‘s pamphlet, The Misplaced House<\/em>, was published by tall-lighthouse in November 2014.\u00a0 She lives in Wiltshire where she is involved in community literature projects and is editor at And Other Poems<\/em>, an online poetry site. www.andotherpoems.wordpress.com \u00a0<\/a> @And_OtherPoems<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note: Old Girls<\/em> appears in The Misplaced House<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Old Girls In the library, we lost ourselves gazing out at traffic, yearning for stories of\u00a0 adventure and flight. Now, every night, we fly and hum, our bodies carrying the pollen of our lives: dust from cinema seats, grains of instant soup, flakes of lubricating jelly. Our headlamp eyes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[139,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23784,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions\/23784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}